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With entries due next week and three Standardbred auctions under their belt, gavelhouse.com’s September sale saw new ground broken with the top price fetched being $25,000 for the well-presented Miss Fiona. The Captaintreacherous filly was sold in work with her listing page boasting decent side-on and front-on shots with the added bonus of quality video […]

Alabar Farm’s Majestic Son was fittingly awarded the gavelhouse.com Trotting Stallion Of The Year for the second year running at Saturday night’s Harness Racing New Zealand Awards. Represented by two lots in the inaugural gavelhouse.com Standardbred online auction in July, the Majestic Son two-year-olds were the two highest priced horses to sell with his filly […]

Tardina Stud’s two-year-old daughter of Majestic Son in Maggie May (pictured) topped the inaugural gavelhouse.com Standardbred online auction on Wednesday night, fetching $16,000. Tony Parker was more than happy with the result and can see where the new way of trading will fit into their already successful breeding and racing operation “We entered two two-year-olds and […]

        gavelhouse.com has launched their inaugural online Standardbred auction catalogue comprising 23 Lots with bidding set to close starting with Lot 1 at 7pm on Wednesday 24 July. The catalogue features weanlings, yearlings, two-year-olds, racehorses and broodmares both empty and in-foal. Of the in-foal mares the covering sires include Buy Kiwi Made, […]

The much-anticipated virtual ‘open for business sign’ is officially up on gavelhouse.com’s new Standardbred online auction platform with entries for the first monthly auction now being taken. There are two steps for new users to enter horses including registering their user account and then following the simple, self-service process to enter each horse. Entries for […]

Online bloodstock trading is becoming increasingly popular as a timely and cost-effective means of selling. Buyers have the convenience of regular trading opportunities and vendors have a cost-effective selling option to move bloodstock on. Buyers and sellers alike are embracing the concept and with gavelhouse.com’s rapid growth in the thoroughbred sphere seeing its expansion into standardbreds […]

We all know too well the struggle of getting the perfect photo of our horses. But how important is it? A decent photo could be the difference between money in the bank and a horse still sitting in the paddock. It attracts attention and draws in buyers giving them a creditable indication of conformation and […]

Following parent company New Zealand Bloodstock’s well-received foray into the Standardbred sphere, industry leader in online thoroughbred auctions gavelhouse.com are preparing to extend their services also. Having launched in April 2016, gavelhouse.com’s user-friendly, regular online auctions have been a welcome addition to the thoroughbred industry in New Zealand and Australia. Now an integral part of […]